Pragmatism in Programming Proverbs - gingerBill

I was originally going to write a normal prose article regarding the topic of Pragmatism in Programming, however I thought I’d experiment in style by writing in a proverbial style.

Do not worry about the implementation of a program most of the time. If you understand the purpose, function, and usage of your problem, the implementation will usually be trivial

It is a fallacy to try to model your problem around a model of world, as this is a category error. The reality of your problem is probably different to a reality of an analogous thing not on a computer.

Holistic models rarely exist; reality is more complicated than we expect, do not worry about having specialized models for specific things

Object orientated programming is a form of misinterpreted and misapplied Aristotelian Metaphysics applied to a domain it was never meant to model

People will naturally gravitate towards flash fads looking for wisdom in them; there are proven cultural practices that contain wisdom

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